Rob Reid could be forgiven for thinking that his visits to the ABC studios to chat about the weekend's games may be cursed.

Two of the Power's three losses this year have come on Rob's watch!

However it seems as though a slow start and failing to take advantage of the windy conditions is a more likely set of reasons for the Power's loss to the Western Jets than any superstitious belief.

Rob Reid says that the team got behind late in the first quarter and then couldn't make up the difference.

"We defended fairly well for about 20 minutes and they'd only kicked two goals. Then they kicked four in the last five minutes. Then in the second quarter when we had the wind, we didn't make use of the wind and they ran the ball really well...all of a sudden we got to half time and we're seven or eight goals down."

Despite the loss Rob was able to identify some positives from the game with several players in really good form.

"Jack Johnstone from Maffra is playing very well...Shaun Marusic from Koo Wee Rup and Danny Butcher from Maffra both played very, very well. Danny's playing as well as he was in the run up to the finals last year...Luke Thompson from Moe is playing particularly well and Tom Fusinato from Warragul and Ryley Hall from Orbost...he had a really good game."

The Power play the Northern Knights on Saturday July 9th at 1pm at the Morwell ground.